Alienware Aurora

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.4% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Alienware Aurora (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0H869M
Memory	7.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20091028
Uptime	8.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '18 at 04:07
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-920-$90 69,074 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz, turbo 2.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	70% Very good	Memory 94.2 1-Core 72.9 2-Core 142 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 250 8-Core 356 38% 303 Pts	64-Core 356 22% 356 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6770 16,639 User benchmarks, average bench 10% AMD(1002 2543) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1055.0 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	11.4% Very poor	Lighting 15.1 Reflection 11.6 Parallax 12.9 12% 13.2 fps	MRender 10.4 Gravity 11.4 Splatting 12.7 10% 11.5 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 11.4% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate BUP Slim SL 2TB 8,475 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1TB free Firmware: 0304 Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	17.2% Very poor	Read 30.9 Write 28 Mixed 27.4 22% 28.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 3.03 4K Mixed 0.43 142% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 669GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 168642304 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 382 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 234743854 (09) Power-on hours count 23 23 68141 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 176 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 62 622460963 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 77309411363 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 20 168642304 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 60318520773652 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4208725788 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4173714616	61.1% Good	Read 103 Write 110 Mixed 93.2 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.29 74% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6x2GB 38,297 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 6 of 6 slots used 12GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	51.8% Above average	MC Read 19.6 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 19.5 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.6 SC Write 11 SC Mixed 13.4 33% 11.7 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 59%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 70%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples	218x
Core i7 930Intel $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples	87x
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	51x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	36x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	34x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	32x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
MZ7PD256HAFV-000H7 256GBSamsungBench 85%, 3,736 samples	12x

RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	80x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	73x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	64x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $249

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16